I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Compliment three people every day.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Never take anything for granted.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.